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Where to Go While in Haifa
There are many places to see while you stay in Haifa. This city offers everythign from clean, sandy beaches to ancient buildings and monuments. The most remarkable thing about Haifa is how different influences seem to coexist within it, seemingly unaffected by one another and with no visible conflict. This is the city where Jews and Arabs have been living together for decades, where old structures stand not far from huge shopping malls and where you may lose your way in small, stone paved alleys only to find yourself facing a hip nightclub. There are many things to do in this city, and the list below is only a partial description. The best thing, of course, is arrive the city and discover it yourself.
Baha'i Gardens and Golden Dome
This incredible garden contains 19 terraces and a magnificent centerpiece, the gold-domed Shrine of the Bab, which holds the tomb of Siyyad Ali Muhammed. It extends from the summit of Mount Carmel, below Yefe Nof Street, in Hazionut Street. The founder of the Bahai faith was a Persian named Mirza Ali Mohammed, who declared in 1844 himself the Bab (="Gateway" to God). Following his assassination in Tabriz in 1850, his heir Mirza Hussein Ali, who called himself Baha-u-Illah, escaped to the Ottoman Empire, where he declared himself as the Imam in 1868. After being held in captivity for 24 years in Akko, he died and was buried in 1892 in the northern part of Akko. His adherents brought his remains in secret, from Persia to Palestine and built his tomb in Haifa in 1909. The establishing of the monumental dome over the grave was completed in 1953.
Elijah's Cave
Facing the Carmelite Monastery in Haifa is a trail leading down to Elijah's Cave that also referred to as the School of the Prophet and located at the foot of the cape. This is the place that believed to be the cave in which Elijah put himself out of sight from the kings of Israel. Elijah is admired as El-Khidr by the Muslims, who had an active mosque there until 1948.
Haifa -Central Carmel
Central Carmel is the highest and most select district of the city. From the Old Technion in Haifa it is a short walk rising to this area which contains Gan Ha'em Park, with its biology & prehistory museum and small Zoo, Hanassi Boulevard (which include the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art) and Yefe Nof Street- the most beautiful road in Haifa, affording stunning sceneries of the city as well as the harbor and the bay across to Akko.
Ein Hod
This charming artists' village of En Hod is located south to Haifa on the western inclines of Mount Carmel. It was established on the site of a deserted Arab village by the Dadaist Marcel Janco in 1953. Nowadays it is the home of 130 families, who practice a village co-operative while at least one member of each family has to be an artist of some kind. The Inhabitants' artistic activities cover a wide range from photography, writing, acting to painting and sculpturing. Their work is for sale and there is also a museum mostly dedicated to Dadaism which can be a cultural spot of attraction, as well.
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